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Definition of Empoisons
1. empoison [v] - See also: empoison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empoisons
Literary usage of Empoisons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Euripides by Euripides, Robert Potter (1832)
"... who with baleful bite empoisons justice ; one, whose double tongue With glossing
arguments from side to side 280 All things perverts, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"Again, the Chinese merchant supplies your country with his goodly tea and silk,
conferring thereby a benefit upon her, but the English merchant empoisons ..."
3. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"I may add that none of my predominant inclinations centre in those pleasures
which are to be purchased : money empoisons my delights; VOL. i. ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... plain where it flies, empoisons and blasts each green blade that may rise, So
wherever the leaves of your shrubs find their way, ..."
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